World through the aperture

The city skyline is seen in drifting snow during the polar vortex in Buffalo, New York, US, January 31, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)

A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:

Ice covers the Lake Michigan shoreline on January 30, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by AFP)Photographers shoot the sunrise despite temperatures hovering around -20 degrees and wind chills nearing -50 degrees on January 31, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by AFP)Ice forms on tree branches as New York firefighters battle a blaze in a commercial building in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 in New York. (Photo by AP)Frozen pants stand alone in Saint Anthony Village, Minnesota, US January 30, 2019 in this image obtained from social media on January 31, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Mykh, a two-year-old Great Gray Owl, sits on the head of ornithologist Daria Koshcheyeva during a training session, which is part of a project of a local zoo to tame wild animals for further research and interaction with visitors, in the Siberian Taiga forest in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 30, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Polar bear "Jing Jing" puts its front paws together at its enclosure at the Wuhan Haichang Polar Ocean World by Haichang Ocean Park, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 31, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)A leopard attacks a man after straying into a residential area in Jalandhar, India, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Photo by AP)Mourners hold paper cutouts of yellow butterflies, symbols of sexual slavery victims, during a funeral ceremony of former South Korean "comfort woman" Kim Bok-dong, who was forced to serve as a sex slave for Japanese troops during World War II, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on February 1, 2019. (Photo by AFP)People walk on a street as they go to work in the morning in Tokyo on February 1, 2019. (Photo by AFP)